Samsung TV - Use TV speakers for record player

jasongordon

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Have a record player with RCA audio out (Red & white) and want to hook it up to my Samsung UN55F7500 smart tv to hear the music. When I try to do this using the AV2 channel, the TV says no signal. Further experimenting, if I hook the yellow RCA up from some other device that is outputting video then all of a sudden I can hear my record player music. This is not a real solution for me as it would require me to change all of my connections in the back every time I want to play music. Is there some other way to fool the tv into seeing the video input on the AV2 channel when there really isnt one or maybe some other way to hook this up?
 
Unless your turntable has a built in phono preamp your will need to get one otherwise the volume will be very low and there will little bass and too much highs. Take a look at this:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/21PCGJR9SBLQP
Assuming you use the HDMI from at least one source feeding the TV you can use the video out from that same device to fool the TV. You can leave that cable hooked up all the time.
 
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jasongordon

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Thanks for the advice. I'll look into a preamp, however I never had to use one with my previous LCD tv and it worked fine. I will see if my cable box outputs the component and hdmi at the same time and this just might work.